When Aelita woke, she could see nothing but white all around.
"Wh-Where am I?" She asked, holding her head.
Nothing. It was all silence.
"Somebody! Anybody!" Aelita yelled out again.
Aelita stood and started running. She didn't know where she was or where she would end up, but she would run away from there. After running for what seemed like long enough, she stopped.
"Ugh! This isn't right this is all the same! Jeremy! Jeremy! Can you hear me?" She looked up to what looked like space, but was white.
"He can't hear you...nobody can..." She heard a voice.
It was familiar, she turned and saw who it was. There he was, the person they had spent so long trying to find. William.
"W...William!" Aelita ran over to him, he scooped her up into a hug. "What is this place, where are we?"
"Welcome to the digital sea."
"This is just the theory Jeremy had...but why aren't we dead?"
"It's what he wants you to think." "Who?"
"Xana. He said it was dangerous, yet here we are." William pulled away to look at Aelita.
"How do we get out?"
"I'm afraid we can't..." William looked away.
"What do you mean we can't? We got in here, there has to be a way out!" Aelita raised her voice, now pacing the space.
"Aelita, There. Is. No. Way. Don't you think I've tried?" William spoke, his voice sounded tired. Aelita looked at William.
"There's seriously no way out?" William shook his head.
"Sorry, if I knew...I'd tell you."
"Then what do we do! We can't just sit here and do nothing...With both you and I here, he has what he wanted...He's going to destroy the earth. Oh, my...William!" It all clicked in Aelita's head. "He's going to turn us into Xana Puppets..." Aelita sank to the ground.
William didn't know what to do, all he could do was hug her, and so he did. They stayed like that for what seemed like forever, Aelitas sobs hushed enough to look back at William.
"William?" Her voice shook.
"Hmm?" He hummed.
"Nothing..." She stayed quiet. William pulled away to look at her.
"What is it?"
"H...How do you live here..."
"You don't..." William sighed."But I guess you can say it'll be a little better since we have each other as company."
Aelita closed her eyes. "Are our powers valid here?"
"No.." William whispered.
Aelita squeezed her eyes shut, holding back the sobs.
"Aelita, I'm here, we're not alone, we'll get out of here...please...don't...cry." William comforted.
"Oh William.." Aelita whispered his name. "What are we going to do.."
It had been another while there, Her in his arms, Him telling her everything would be alright. She had managed to fall asleep to his reassuring coo-ing. He lifted her and took her to a place that had hope written on it, even if it was just a little part. She woke on a bed...she sighed, thinking it had all been a dream, but was quickly knocked out of it when she heard that oh so familiar voice.
"William?" she called out for him. He walked in. "Where are we?" She asked.
"This...This is where I stay. In the digital sea...This is my home." William played with his fingers.
Aelita and William had never been this close, let alone had they talked this much.
"How is this your house...?" Aelita looked around, stumbling a little as she stood.
"How do I explain this.." William helped Aelita recover her footing.
"What's going on?"
"This is the digital sea..but there's something to it, like it was incomplete, a work in progress...I want to show you something.." William held his hand out to Aelita, in return, Aelita hesitated, but he was the only one there, the only one she could trust. She took his left the room, and entered the kitchen area.
"You live in this home?"
"Mhm.." William continued to pulle her out of the house and out to the digital backyard, where they came face to face with a jet black and red streaked over-bike.
"An Over-Bike! How did you get this!?" Aelita ran to the vehicle, overwhelmed with it.
"This isn't what I want to show you.." He got on. "Hop on." He instructed.
Aelita nodded and jumped onto the overbike. She was unsure of where to hold on until she felt William's hands over hers.
"Calm down." He said, placing her hands around his waist. "With the time i've had here, I've found myself mastering how to ride this thing." He said.
Aelita stayed quiet as he turned on the over-bike and sped off to where he was taking her. She looked around, the only place that had color was that space alone. Once the house was no longer in sight it seemed like they had been traveling for a long time, she became weary and dropped her head on his back.
"Aelita?" William slightly turned to her.
"I'm fine..." William nodded his head and slowed down the bike.
"We're about getting there Aelita."
"William?"
"Yeah?"
"How do you travel here...it's all the same."
"I've been here a while to get lost more than once and find myself again. You can say..Ive learned a lot while I've been here..Being isolated lead me to exploration...I travel by distance and memory."
Aelita nodded, When the vehicle finally stopped, she looked up at what looked like a dead tower. Her mouth shot open as she jumped off to give it a look.
"Woooww." She whispered.
"I thought you'd like it.." William was suddenly behind her.
"William! This is great! This tower..." She turned to hug William in that instance.
"I hate to burst your bubble Aelita, but the tower is kind of dead."
"But I can fix it. Don't worry! We can get out of here William, Thank you so much for showing me this you have no idea how much this means to me!"
"Y-You're welcome Aelita.." Aelita began walking around and searching the tower.
"I may need a few things". She sat criss-cross and looked up at the tower.
"Like what?"
"I'm not sure.." Aelita pouted.
"I can try to get you some things..." William sat and closed his eyes.
"What are you.." Aelita looked at a sudden dark cloud that hovered over William."W-William?" With the cloud it divided and shaded into objects then dropped to the ground as objects that could be of use. "How...How did you do that?"
"I just thought..I guess.."
"What if thats how we can make this place work...have you ever tried it?"
"Other that this time...just when I made the house."
"William!" Aelita smiled and started walking around."What was your favorite sector?"
"My favorite sector?" He looked confused.
"Yes." She smiled with a nod.
"The forest." William shrugged. "I don't know."
Aelita closed her eyed, with her head tilted to the ground, her hands formed a triangle at her belly. The white space around them changed to her vision of the forest sector.
"Aelita..you did it." William laughed.
Aelita opened her eyes. "It did.." She smiled and looked at him. "William, I will work on the tower. I want you to go and paint all the white spaces for me."
"But..I wouldn't know how you'd like it." He hesitated, scratching the back of his neck.
"You were here first, it doesnt matter to me how you decorate." She closed her eyed and tilted her head to the side. "Surprise me." She giggled.
William shook his head. "Okay..I'll be back, don't go anywhere."
"Don't count on it." She giggled, with a wink.
William smiled at how he remembered Aelita, always happy and bright, no matter the situation. He got onto the bike and rode off. He pulled over when Aelita was out of sight and closed his eyes.